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Dark Phoenix

2019 · Film · 114 min

  • Science Fiction
  • Action
  • Adventure

Plot

The X-Men face their most formidable and powerful foe when one of their own, Jean Grey, starts to spiral out of control. During a rescue mission in outer space, Jean is nearly killed when she's hit by a mysterious cosmic force. Once she returns home, this force not only makes her infinitely more powerful, but far more unstable. The X-Men must now band together to save her soul and battle aliens that want to use Grey's new abilities to rule the galaxy.

About Dark Phoenix

Dark Phoenix (marketed internationally and released on home media as X-Men: Dark Phoenix) is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men. It is a sequel to X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), the twelfth installment in the X-Men film series, and the fourth and final installment of the prequel films. It marks the first main X-Men film without the involvement of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and the last to be produced by Bad Hat Harry Productions, though the company was uncredited due to sexual assault allegations made against Bryan Singer in 2019. Written and directed by Simon Kinberg, it stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, and Jessica Chastain. Dark Phoenix tells the origin story about how Jean Grey becomes the Phoenix. The story revolves around Jean struggling with mental illness after a cosmic force enhances her psychic powers. It follows Jean as she tries to avoid hurting the people she loves, while other parties seek to control or kill her. After X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) erased the events of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) from the series' timeline, Kinberg expressed interest in a new adaptation of Chris Claremont and John Byrne's "The Dark Phoenix Saga" in a future film that would be more faithful than his previous attempt with X-Men: The Last Stand, which…

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Cast

  • Sophie TurnerJean Grey / Dark Phoenix
  • James McAvoyCharles Xavier / Professor X
  • Nicholas HoultHank McCoy / Beast
  • Tye SheridanScott Summers / Cyclops
  • Michael FassbenderErik Lensherr / Magneto
  • Alexandra ShippOroro Munroe / Storm
  • Evan PetersPeter Maximoff / Quicksilver
  • Jessica ChastainVuk
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